Our February 1+0 Warm-up Arena begins at 17:00 UTC! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Titled Arena!

GM Vincent Keymer wins the first Chess960 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 event in Weissenhaus! He defeated GM Fabiano Caruana in the final after beating GMs Alireza Firouzja and Magnus Carlsen, who finished 3rd.

Congrats @Druismat on winning the Lichess Game of the Month January 2025! Thank you for all your countless submissions!

GM Vincent Keymer, who defeated GM Magnus Carlsen 1.5 to 0.5 in the semi-finals, will play GM Fabiano Caruana in the final of the Chess960 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Weissenhaus - starting tomorrow at 12:00 UTC. Watch all the remaining games in our broadcast.

Join us and thousands of players for 5 hours of 3+0 Blitz in our Yearly SuperBlitz Arena, starting at 17:00 UTC.

Try our latest puzzle theme addition: the Vuković Mate. Many thanks again to @dirkster99 for helping to implement another new puzzle theme!

Lichess had 31 people contribute code across 15 repositories in January! Check out what's changed in the updated changelog and discuss the changes in our feedback forum thread.